SciLifeLab course: Basic Bioinformatics

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5 days, (1,5 hp)

The purpose of this course is to familiarize researchers with backgrounds in medicine, biology, or related fields with publicly available bioinformatics analysis programs. All of the tools that we cover are free for public use, and are either accessible through a web interface or easy to install locally. Specifically, we will explain how to use and interpret the results of:

– UCSC Genome browser (including blat)

– Ensembl genome browser (including an introduction into their public database interface)

Course organizers

Course information

Application deadline: February 6th

National Course. The course is open for PhD students, postdocs, researchers, and other employees in need of bioinformatic skills within all Swedish universities

Limit: 20 participants

Note! Important dates!

February 6th
Application deadline

February 7thYou will receive a confirmation that we have received your application.

February 8th
You will receive an email stating that you have been accepted to the course or an email stating that you have not been accepted to the course

If you don’t receive information according to the dates above, contact: elina.hjertstrom@scilifelab.uu.se

Course fee

A course fee of 1800 SEK will be invoiced to accepted participants (includes the study material, coffee, lunches and course dinner).

Organizer

SciLifeLab

Date and time

2013-02-25 - 2013-03-01

Location

SciLifeLab has been created by the coordinated effort of four universities in Stockholm and Uppsala: Stockholm University, Karolinska Institutet, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Uppsala University.